BATTLEFIELDS IN LONDON

Your tour commences in Lille or London, where you meet your specialist Battlefield guide at the tour departure point. We then tour …

Your tour commences in Lille or London, where you meet your specialist Battlefield guide at the tour departure point. We then tour the Somme battlefield covering major sites from the calamitous first day through the whole five months of the battle. You see Delville Wood, the Welsh memorial at Mametz Wood, the huge Lochnagar mine crater, the sunken road where the Lancashire Fusiliers suffered terribly, the Pozieres battlefield and Windmill Hill (both important site for Australians), Courcelette, site of the first major use of tanks supporting Canadian troops, and the nearby the tank memorial. We include the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing and the Ulster Tower. An undoubted highlight, however, will be the incredibly preserved Beaumont Hamel battlefield site. For those who are continuing to Ypres the next day, it is possible to attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres this evening. Those who are departing the tour today will return to Lille before the Last Post ceremony.

Can be combined with Ypres Salient (Sunday) and Fromelles & Vimy Ridge (Monday) See Motorcoach Tours under Battlefields.

Days of Operation:
Every Saturday from 20 March 2010 to 13 November 2010

The final day in our series of one-day Western Front battlefield visits takes us to the line between Armentieres and Arras, dubbed …

The final day in our series of one-day Western Front battlefield visits takes us to the line between Armentieres and Arras, dubbed the nursery trenches. On this day we visit sites connected with the 1915 battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Neuve Chapelle, where the Indian Army gave a magnificent account of itself, and the 1917 Battle of Arras. We see where Adolf Hitler served and the bunker he is reputed to have used as a billet. Australians will be touched at seeing the 'Cobbers' Memorial in Fromelles. An archaeological investigation during 2009 exhumed many soldiers remains from mass graves, and these bodies will be re-interred during 2010 in the new cemetery that is being constructed opposite the exhumation site by Pheasant Wood . We cross the Loos battlefield, site of the disastrous battle of 1915. For Canadians, Vimy Ridge is undoubtedly the highlight, where we take a trench tour and spend time at the massive and imposing Vimy memorial. We also see sites in and around the pretty city of Arras connected with the huge battle of 1917. If time, we see the French National memorial at Notre Dame de Lorette before returning to our Lille departure point.

Can be combined with The Somme (Saturday) and Ypres Salient (Sunday) - See Motorcoach Tours under Battlefields

Days of Operation:
Every Monday from 22 March 2010 to 15 November 2010

Your tour commences in Lille or London. On our day touring the Salient we see, in the company of a first class guide, some of the m…

Your tour commences in Lille or London. On our day touring the Salient we see, in the company of a first class guide, some of the most important sites that remain: the area of the first gas attack, John McRae's Essex Farm, the Messines Ridge, Hooge crater where the flame thrower was introduced into modern warfare, and the sites that played a pivotal role in the Battle of Passchendaele; Polygon Wood and Tyne Cot. Walk the moonscape of the Hill 60 battlefield and see literally dozens of memorials to British, Australian and Canadian regiments and units. The tour returns to Lille, or for those remaining, we spend an evening in our regional accommodation.

Can be combined with Fromelles & Vimy Ridge (Monday) See Motorcoach Tours under Battlefields

Days of Operation:
Every Sunday from 21 March 2010 to 14 November 2010